New Ernest Dichter online archive

4th November 2014

Stefan Schwarzkopf highlights the launch of a fascinating archive of all the market and consumer research reports compiled by the famous (and notorious) motivation researcher Ernest Dichter between 1935 and the 1980s Read More

Silent lectures

5th June 2014

David Stark introduces his ‘silent lectures’, which are available to download. There are four silent lectures – Performance, Models, Demonstrations, and (with Gernot Grabher) Frequently Asked Questions Read More

Devising or agencing markets?

5th December 2013

Are consumer markets devised or ‘agenced’? Liz McFall wonders in this first follow up to the ESF Agencing Markets workshop and extract from her forthcoming book Devising Consumption. Read More

Plastic economies

3rd October 2013

Gay Hawkins on Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, a new collection co-edited with Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael Read More

Occupy London

12th February 2013

A gallery of photographs taken by Andrew Hill in early November 2011 outside St Paul’s and at Finsbury Circus Read More

The Economy of the Quota: The Financial Ecologies and Commercial Circuits of Retail Credit Cards in Santiago, Chile

6th December 2012

A report on preliminary research conducted by Jose Ossandon into how credit limits move between people and homes. Translated by Taylor Nelms Read More